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I had the experience, not here but on Server Fault, of posting a Question about a problem with an offsite resource. As StackExchange content goes, it was not the best (one upvote, two downvotes, no ...

I have a problem with "what does this syntax mean?" questions in general, because you could come up with near-infinite such questions and they'd never be searchable (and, thus, useful) to anybody else. I don't see their value in a Q&A.
But there is obvious value to the posting individual. If the OP can cite their sources and use words to describe some ...

I'm pretty new, but I upvote the answers that help me solve my problem, and the question that provoked the answer (or it wouldn't be there), I think that's only fair.
I also upvote questions without an answer for my problem if the question itself is relevant to my issue, call it solidarity for a fellow sufferer

Errors in tutorials and other learning resources can be very confusing to people trying to learn something new. If they already understood the syntax and everything well enough to know that it was an error in the tutorial, they probably wouldn't be reading the tutorial in the first place.
If a tutorial does something in a way different from how you would ...

First of all, that wasn't a spam seed. Spam seeds are rather cleverly disguised, so much that they even trick reviewers if used in an audit.
Once they get an answer they reveal their true identity. The example seems an attempt (from possibly a spammer) to figure out how markdown works. Notice that the post isn't marked as spam, not even by Flexo who deleted ...

I disagree with this feature request, because of two reasons:
It would generate a large amount of annoying false-positives. For example, I would prepare a MCVE and copy it over. The moment I copy it, it will trigger a warning, because I need to indent the code by selecting it and clicking the button. Is this useful? No. Is it annoying? Yes, very.
It will ...

While I think this would be reasonably difficult to detect well, I like the idea and I think it should be looked into.
Making people jump through hoops to get to a good level of quality may seem mean to some, but this is how we maintain a better level of quality for the community and the site.
I wish there was also a way to stop people cold if they have ...

I use to upvote questions I am willing to ask myself: if I am stuck on some problem, go to google, search it; ehi, someone had my same (or similiar) problem here on stackoverflow, let's see how did he solved!

Let me repeat @JonClement's comment here, because I totally agree with it and has the main point IMO:
Assess voting on the question as though it didn't have any answers. Is it clear, does it provide the necessary information, is it well formatted etc. [...] treat the question as though it was stand-alone.
Let me expand on this by going through your ...

The best thing you can do is recognize that answering will not help them learn, and link them to
Open letter to students with homework problems
so that they can understand this as well. Some highlights of that post:
There are several things to consider as to why this is bad.
The typical class builds upon previous experiences. The compiler class
...

Even a result of "this didn't work" improves your question.
Also, if you found that solution 'foo' was specified in question X, but solution 'foo' did not work for you, you should definitely add that to your question - make it clear that your question is not a duplicate of question X.
As @Kendra points out in the comments, these results show what you've ...

Yes, in the help center page for How do I search?, you can add some search operators.
user:me will select only your posts. Alternatively, you can actually provide your user number. Your user number is a url parameter when you visit your profile.
is:question will select only posts that are questions
So a search like user:1308031 is:question (or when ...

YES if it is the same solution as yours and you didn't write your own answer already
NO if you used a different approach.
In any case upvote it if it could be helpful to others.
Also please let a question stay a question, just modify it if you want to make it clearer to others, so people can search for questions too not only for solutions!
If you have ...

The way you approached it looks like the right choice to me. If you have a new question about the same code, that code should appear in the new question so that it stands on its own. There's nothing wrong with providing the link for context, but people shouldn't be forced to follow a link (even to another question on Stack Overflow) to get all the ...

May be one should distinct between edit of text and edit of the code. I tried to fix invalid XML (two slashes missing) and I failed. So I would vote for even a 1 character change in a code block a a legitime one.

You may not feel like you can answer questions to improve yourself.
\\ Don't be afraid to ask questions.
Sure, you get pixie points for writing a good concise answers. I was never formally taught coding (I was raised by wolves on punch cards) I found that asking questions helped. Several people thought that some of my early questions were for homework ...

I've had the same problem as you. I really wanted to contribute, but whenever a question suitable for my level came along, someone else would answer it faster and better. I felt a little bit like a leech, for only recieving answers, and not contributing to them myself.
I think that this is a little bit like being a good author. In order to write well; read ...

If there's an area you know something about but which isn't a very popular subject on SO, easy-to-answer questions hang around a lot longer without getting an accepted answer - or even any answers. There's a lot of competition to answer questions with popular tags, and unfortunately this means that it can be very tough to get a chance to answer the simpler ...

In the search box, type your favourite tag and "answers:0". If you want the newbie questions, you can also type "newbie".
[C++] answers:0 newbie
Then on the results screen, click on the Newest tab to sort them by date/time.
Scroll down a bit to get past the questions that were posted in the last couple of minutes. Those are the ones that are being ...

There are a vast number of people with the right to downvote. Every so often, one will fly over your head. There is no possible way to change this.
Having a thick skin is, for better or worse, required when asking the entire internet to help you solve a problem.

See, the whole point here is to not BUCKET yourself in a single level. Choose the technology you are currently working or learning or are interested in.
Go to Tags right next to Questions, it has already categorized the questions with the help of tags. Read along and see if you can solve any of the issues others are facing. Or try to relate to the issue ...

Does this stock close reason not work for you?
This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced or a simple typographical error. While similar questions may be on-topic here, this one was resolved in a manner unlikely to help future readers. This can often be avoided by identifying and closely inspecting the shortest program ...

First of all, answering questions that are already answered is sometimes viable: accepted answer is not necessarily good. If you know something about the already "solved" problem that other answers have not mentioned, feel free to add yours. This is especially true for "novice-level" questions that sometimes attract answers that appear to be correct, work ...

It depends on the things that you work with. If you're into java, then you really only need to keep an eye on the feed of recently active questions - it tends to be an 'omelette' when it comes to complexity and difficulty.
If you're into c, then you'd probably want to keep an eye on questions about pointers, and possibly memory-management, which sometimes ...

How can I improve this question given that I feel I have reached the extent of my knowledge?
There are good people who will comment on what else you need to add to your question to make it clearer and better. Look for comments that tell you things like, "you need to add this" or "isn't variable1 supposed to be this?" and stuff like that. They can really ...

Well, once you landed on such a question, the apparent thing to do was to edit the title to better fit the question text. That way, you would help future readers.
Of course this leaves a question: Could there be a way to make it less of an issue to start with?
Math.SE folks recently bragged at MSE that they found a way to make it less troublesome:
To ...

Browsers already have a bookmark feature, and most - if not all - browsers support copying the URL of a bookmark without opening it (right click -> copy). The close interface already allows inputting URL's. So yes, it takes a couple of clicks, but especially using a folder in the bookmarks toolbar would be pretty efficient
click (open the folder)
scroll ...

I'm going to answer my own question here. Based on the up-votes/down-votes this receives will be a deciding factor in how to solve the issue.
The question in principle is good. How to simulate universal gravitation in Sprite Kit can be very helpful to users creating games with Sprite Kit. I have answered questions in the past about how to simulate ...

Yes. Yes, it was.
I have two objects.
How do you make them attracted to each other by the force of gravity?
And how to use there mass? (if object has big mass, it should gravitate more).
Physics are hard. There's a lot of nuance to them and a lot of things depend on a lot of other things. The biggest thing here is that this seems to be more of ...

So, I obviously cannot ask a new question (It would be marked duplicate anyway).
Reverse the table. Prepare a new question with all the additional research you've made in the interim (for you did do additional research), add openly a link to the previous question and explain that yours is not a duplicate since the old question had no answers, and yours ...

The first thing to do is to edit the post.
Go and try to improve the question quality.
If you can't, you might add the following statement at the end of the post:
EDIT
Maybe 1 year ago there was no solution, but now there could be very easy solutions.
This will:
Bump the question to the top of the homepage.
Bump the question to the top of the ...

"But no answers are available"
Your question can not be marked as duplicate if no answers are available for the other question.
Definition of Duplicate
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If
those answers do not fully address your question, please edit this
question to explain how it is different or ask a new question.
...

Assuming you refer to this question then I would suggest the following.
There are several different problem asked in the question. It is better to write about one clearly stated problem per question.
There are several confusing phrases in the question making it hard to understand what you are asking. (Whilst I know nothing about the topics in your ...

These rules have nothing to do with SEO (which is as inscrutable now as it was 7 years ago) or disc space (which was still pretty cheap 7 years ago). They have everything to do with people not reading.
Background: in which I annoy you with graphic analogies
7 years ago, the problem was that programmers seem to have stopped reading books; today it's that ...

OK, here is my solution to how you can completely fix StackOverflow and stop all the flame wars and pedants.
Reputation is not publicly visible, or even easily knowable to the user
Reputation only facilitates the ability to unlock certain features
Votes are not visible - rather a positive trending score is displayed, which is calculated using age in ...

Let's not do that.
And it is not because I'm one of the pedants you seem to dislike but it is because you seem to assume that the question needs to be helpful for the asker which I sincerely disagree with.
The helpful culture exists because a lot of visitors find what they are looking for because of the tons of great posts we already have available. That ...

Yes. But I'm not yet sure what we'll do.
It's been awhile since we just had a bit of fun here on meta and felt great about something awesome that just happened to this thing that every single one of us have worked so hard to build.
It will probably involve:
Unicorns and rainbows
Copious amounts of swag
Silly, mindless and extremely fun contests where ...

There are a handful of valid scenarios in which an MCVE isn't necessary, but those are best evaluated on a case-by-case basis. By and large, I've found it to be uncommon as opposed to rare, but there are valid questions that don't really need to have a compilable example to be answerable or well-understood.
This doesn't immediately mean that pseudocode is ...

Are you sure you can't recreate the issue in a separate, smaller program? If so, you can flag for closure.
Click "flag"
"off topic because..."
"This question was caused by a problem that can no longer be reproduced or a simple typographical error. While similar questions may be on-topic here, this one was resolved in a manner unlikely to help future ...

StackOverflow is wrong place for "why would you use X" question (similar rules are on most other SE sites).
There are many cases when question about new features would be appropriate for SO. For example if you feel that feature could be useful for particular task you have, but can't get it working question would be fine:
"I'm trying to do XXXXX which I ...

You've pulled an example question from the early days of the site. What was on topic then isn't a good example of what's on topic now even if it's been upvoted a lot.
However, that particular question is pretty good, even if it's a short question; many people are confused as to what metaprogramming in Python is, and this will help enlighten those who are ...

you're potentially passing over a question with useful comments,
because you don't realize that the comments are there.
And quoting your comment to JoeW's answer:
if I already see comments, it indicates it has already gotten the
attention of someone else who can help with that kind of thing
We cannot possibly know that from a numerical ...

Your deleted question had specific issues; you could have fixed these and had a pretty good question. Here's the question you asked:
Is it considered a good/reasonable idea to run parallel automation
code in different webdrivers in the same thread? on the same machine?
or, is it a much better idea to use selenium grid for parallel
automation, ...